Importing large amounts of addresses into Microsoft DNS

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard J.deBoynePollard at tesco.net
Wed Jul 23 12:12:43 UTC 2003


SW> Perhaps the missing bit is that NT DNS allows you to store the 
SW> DNS information in files rather than the registry, and I'd
SW> recommend using files. 

Microsoft's DNS server does not store the DNS database in the Registry.  It
stores it either in text files or in the Active Directory database.

SW> On the downside I only ever used Windows NT DNS at one site
SW> because the client insisted, it really wasn't upto the task 
SW> of serious DNS serving, even on the site I was persuaded to 
SW> use it, they failed to note the wonderful way repeated retries 
SW> to transfer a duff domain was eating vast chunks of their
SW> bandwidth. It works well when everything is perfect, but look 
SW> at the hoops you have to jump through to troubleshoot simple
SW> problems, and compare that with other DNS servers like BIND 9.

I'm curious.  Was that transfer between Microsoft's DNS server and BIND ?  If
so, which one was the slave ?


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